From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bastien Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Org mode rant Date: Sat, 01 May 2021 12:06:17 +0200 Organization: GNU Message-ID: <87eeeqojja.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874kfn292f.fsf@disroot.org> <87a6pfh1dj.fsf@zoho.eu> <87sg37giak.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29004"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 01 12:07:07 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lcmWg-0007QE-Fk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 01 May 2021 12:07:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50388 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lcmWf-0007wF-Jn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 01 May 2021 06:07:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52944) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lcmW1-0007uR-43 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 May 2021 06:06:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41554) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lcmVz-000283-OG; Sat, 01 May 2021 06:06:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [2a01:e34:ec2b:7150:d6e0:9bd3:fb7e:77db] (port=43748 helo=guerry) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lcmVu-0004qo-T1; Sat, 01 May 2021 06:06:21 -0400 Original-Received: by guerry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BFD571A60F10; Sat, 1 May 2021 12:06:17 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Jean Louis's message of "Sat, 1 May 2021 12:16:03 +0300") X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129268 Archived-At: Jean Louis writes: >> Because it gives you a false sense of control, it slowly erodes your >> goals' clarity, which weakens your motivation. You end up being >> controlled by a list of things to do instead of focusing on doing >> them. You hope that your tool will help you achieve self-discipline >> instead of disciplining yourself to use it the right way. > > Maybe if you tell your practical use case where you got stuck, then it > would become clearer for me as reader. I am so much interested. I cannot go into details about my real use-case here but the gist of the paragraph you quote is this: once in a while you feel your tool is not helpful enough for handling your to-do, and then you start trying to fix your Org configuration, trusting it even more, instead of sticking to the principles I tried to outline in my post. -- Bastien